why is being able to cook considered attractive when most cooking is just following simple instru… actually no wait I get it now

Seriously considering dressing up as Bioshock's dancing baguette boy this Halloween

Excited to have heard myself mentioned in the latest episode of @backpagepod.bsky.social, thus securing my place in the canon of UK video games journalism as “guy who was excited about the announcement of Metroid Prime 4 at E3 2017”

Tired: Missing my arbitrary 1h55 target time by 39 seconds Wired: Running a sub 2h half marathon for the first time

Reading my hinge profile versus going on a date with me

A Life Well Wasted, video games’ answer to This American Life, just dropped its ninth episode in 16 years and it’s an absolute banger alifewellwasted.com

my flatmate: leaves hair straighteners turned on and goes to work my flatmate’s straighteners: start beeping to tell me flat is about to burn down me: wow what an annoying noise, better put on noise cancelling headphones to block it out

God exists, and he's cancelling my 4:30pm meetings

Remembering fondly a time in school when I completely blanked on the word "Medieval," panicked, and referred to the period instead as "Castle times."

Frankly, my dear... Frankly. Frankly! Come back Frankly, I love you! I'll stop doing the Clark Gable bit I promise! Damn. She's gone. Like the wind

I love how two of Spielberg’s movie titles are just an acronym and then an explanation of that exact acronym

No one wants you to know what the other side of the MGM logo looks like

Here's the full Nirvana performance from Fire Aid for anyone who doesn't want to sort through the whole live feed for it. Fucking hell.

I like how some video game preorder bonuses are like “here’s a funny hat for your character” and others are like “here’s a gun so powerful it’ll ruin the game for you if you ever use it”

to all the folks successfully selling their rtx 4070 ti supers on eBay for £700+ before the rtx 5070 ti comes out next month for £729… well played

here's my take on what we should learn from this week's deepseek panic — that AI has bound together the fortunes of tech, finance, and politics in a fragile and unsustainable way. and if deepseek doesn't pop this bubble, some future launch will www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

Might get really in to swimming just so I can yell “You’ve heard of Elf on the Shelf, now get ready for…” when I dive in

Is there a worse feeling in gaming than solving a puzzle that’s supposed to teach you something without knowing exactly how you did it?

A fascinating read for anyone even a little bit interested in what goes into remastering a movie for a 4K re-release collider.com/david-finche...

people who lived through the prep work for Y2K are always rightfully defensive about that period of time in computing. NPR should have said “Y2K didn't live up to the hype *BECAUSE* years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation” and avoided some of the backlash here 😬

I’m not a prenup guy, but I do think it’s worth getting in writing how many times you’re allowed to say “my wife” in the Borat voice per annum

The lovely thing about Indiana Jones is that his style of stealth is SUPPOSED to be a little slapdash, so it doesn’t feel like you’re playing the game “wrong” if you fuck up and have fist-fight 50 Nazis

Holy crap what an absolutely delightful video about saving an historic piece of retro tech youtu.be/JfZxOuc9Qwk

God bless every single guard in a stealth video game who’s happy to sit there endlessly talking to themselves to reveal their location

A remarkable piece on a surprisingly eccentric British pub chain www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...

“…now what I'm with isn't *it*, and what's *it* seems weird and scary to me.”

lol, people didn't know this before? smh

"Thanks to silt and sea breezes" So what you're saying is... wind begets wind? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

your true love gave you eight maids a milking? cool. just one question. what the fuck are you talking about

It’s a question as old as time: “Is that a soundcheck or has the mathrock band’s set started?”

Can’t believe the guy who worked at an Apple Store a decade ago was wrong about Half Life 3 being announced at The Game Awards

Every day Google's AI summaries find new ways to be crap

This quote is giving real “What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little shit” Reddit energy

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg changed his Slack name to "Gone💀" and posted that he didn't want to work on WordPress anymore after a court injunction in the WP-Engine case www.404media.co/wordpress-wp...

In our latest instalment of "AI features that promise more than they can deliver": Notion's "Ask AI" feature will happily provide a completely incorrect figure if you highlight some text and ask for a word count

oh no, I’m at serious risk of getting my hopes up again about high speed rail in the UK

it really is a shitter for those of us with unattractive music tastes that spotify wrapped season overlaps with cuffing season

as is tradition my Spotify Wrapped is too embarrassing to share in full, but this one slide made me laugh so I guess you guys can see it

speak for yourself junior

You are seeing more and more routers pre-flashed with OpenWRT (GL.iNet for example). The OpenWRT One is produced by Banana Pi, who have made boards for this purpose before but it's nice to see an officially sanctioned device for 90 bucks! I go into OpenWRT here: aftermath.site/opnsense-pro...

As a proportion of the US population, barely anyone used Twitter even in its heyday. The idea that it was ever a representative town square is a fantasy.

Congrats to Corridor Crew (who don’t seem to be on BlueSky just yet) for hitting 10 million subscribers, and to Wren in particular for getting absolutely hammered in celebration youtu.be/Zvo0ZhVW7KY

It’s unreal how much joy my physio gets from repeatedly pushing needles into my knees My legs’ll do a big spasm and he’ll say “phwoar!” in his thick Kiwi accent as his little moustached face grins I just can’t even

god this is beautiful www.theverge.com/c/24278723/c...

Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵

Oooo, someone's brought back Nuzzle for the post-Twitter era! sill.social takes your BlueSky and Mastodon details and returns a list of all the articles your follows are linking to, so you can keep up with news being shared without getting distracted by the social chatter

Have there been any attempts to reverse engineer the “Twitter algorithm source code” that Musk released (as part of a stupid stunt) into a BlueSky following feed? www.theverge.com/2023/3/31/23...

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty SEO journalist: Best cup 2024: release date, news, and features

Did you know that by substituting your morning coffee with green tea, you can eliminate up to 93% of what little joy you have left?